At the moment my life is changing rapidly: I finished my master’s degree in computer science and I am looking forward to my first job. But before, I wanted to fulfill a little dream of mine: another long climbing trip to Spain. With Paul Schall and Lulu Raab, I found two highly motivated friends to…
What’s the best bouldering spot in Europe? I guess Fontainebleau would be the answer for most of the climbers. Thousands of excellent and challenging boulders located in the forests near Paris. Even though Fontainebleau is the non-plus-ultra for bouldering in Europe, I have only been there once in a cold and rainy Easter week. This…
After sport climbing at the Voralpsee, it was time to return to one of my favorite bouldering spots in Switzerland – Magic Wood in the Averstal. During our trip in spring, we were able to climb a bunch of challenging boulder problems, but we also had to leave some projects unclimbed. Time to try them…
The climbing spot is a small but special in every respect. Located near a wonderful small lake in the Alps and the mountain scenery is amazing. The climbing wall looks like being cut down with a sharp knife: a plain face, 30° overhanging and without larger rock structures. Small waves cover the rock face and make…
Part III of III After leaving Chimanimani, our next spot to visit was Waterval Boven in South Africa. But before we could climb in South Africa, we had to leave Zimbabwe over the Beitbridge border – the same border crossing that had cost us a lot of time and nerves a few weeks ago ……
Part II of III Chimanimani mountains – a place of incredible beauty and the destination of our journey through Zimbabwe with the DAV rock climbing team ‘Felskader BW’. So far we had just seen some stunning photos and local people praised it to the fullest – so we were very excited to see the Chimanimani…
Part I of III When we left Germany at the beginning of August 2018, it was the beginning of an adventurous journey through South Africa, across Zimbabwe from West to East, to Mozambique and four weeks later back again to South Africa. Every two years, we do an expedition-like trip with the DAV rock climbing…
Magic Wood in Switzerland was one favourite on the list of climbing destinations for this year. This beautiful forest near the river with hundreds of nice boulder problems is truly a wonderful place to be and actually not too far located from us. I have not been there since the last trip one year ago,…
It’s a strange characteristic of the climbing crags in the Palatinate forest that there are only a few hard routes at each rock. Therefore the ‘Retschelfels’ is somehow unique – the steep overhangs on the shady north side provide a lot of hard routes. One of them is ‘Gambaexplosion’ [8c] – climbed by Lutz Limburg for…
I had been several times in the Allgäu for mixed and ice climbing, but never for sports climbing. Thinking about sport climbing destinations around Germany, it would have been pretty low on the list of possible locations. Climbing a weekend at some crags around Sonthofen surprised me in a positive way … Grown up in this region,…